The fine is $1,143 BTW

  • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.world
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    The owner of a meat business in western Michigan was ordered to pay $1,143

    “Two months later, we wouldn’t even be here,” the judge said, noting that the teen soon would have turned 18 years old.

    “Ionia County is a farming county, and I know a lot of people in this county view children working, sometimes around dangerous machinery, as part of growing up,” [the judge] said.

    He said the boy was warned to never put his hand inside the grinder.

    What the FUCK

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      He said the boy was warned to never put his hand inside the grinder.

      He said the boy was warned not to fall into the thresher. Why did he fall into the thresher?

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        It’s like one of those Ernest Hemingway one-sentence stories, that all by itself tells you 100% of what you need to know.

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      “Ionia County is a farming county, and I know a lot of people in this county view children working, sometimes around dangerous machinery, as part of growing up,” [the judge] said.

      I married a farm girl and live in a small town surrounded by farming communities. This is unfortunately very true. Harvest time comes you need all of the help you can get to harvest everything before the weather destroys it. There’s no easy answer to this problem as most people generally don’t want to work on farms given the work conditions, and most small family farms can’t afford to pay for the labor they need (and its gigantic corporate farms where the real abuse happens because there’s no incentive to maintain the land or animals) Pretty much the only people willing to work on farms are the people who grew up on farms and people who can’t work anywhere else (such as migrant laborers from poorer countries)